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A97273	A brief view of the late troubles and confusions in England, begun and occasioned by a prevailing faction in the Long Parliament: deduced to the auspicious [sic] coming in of General Monck, and the most glorious and happy restitution of King Charles the Second. / By William Younger.	Younger, William, 1605-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing Y198; Thomason E1873_2; ESTC R204143	45,037	159

A BRIEF VIEW OF The late troubles and confusions in England begun and occasioned by a prevailing Faction in the Long PARLIAMENT Deduced to the auspicious coming in of GENERAL MONCK And the most glorious and happy Restitution of KING CHARLES the SECOND By WILLIAM YOUNGER Psal 118.22 The same stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the Corner This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes London Printed for Robert Gibbs at the golden Ball in Chancery-lane 1660. AN ADVERTISEMENT TO THE Reader THis brief Relation was composed Chiefly out of the Authors own observation of the transactions in these late sad times Many things are purposely omitted especially in the former part for brevity sake which otherwise might have been inserted For his intentions at first were to leave it in the Register book of his Parish in which he first began it for the use of his successors but it growing too big for that design he drew the rest down in papers to the coming in of General Monck and the happy Restitution of King Charles the Second to his Throne He hath endeavoured herein to set down nothing but truth and hopeth he hath not much failed therein However if any errors or mistakes be they are not wilfull and possibly not much material His purpose only is to set forth the stupendious mercy of God in raising up a temporary Saviour such a one he accounts General Monck to be for the deliverance of this sinful Nation from an oppression or slavery as bad as Egyptian and from a confusion no less than Babylonish If God may have the glory by an humble ackowledgement and real thanks to be given him by the people of these Kingdoms it is all the Author expects or desires A Brief View of the late troubles and confusions in England begun and occasioned by a prevailing faction in the Long Parliament ANNO 1640. Novem. 3. began the Parliament called the Long Parliament year 1640 we may truly term it the Black or the Bloody Parliament that involved the three Nations in blood and destroyed the King the Parliament it self and thee Kindoms The King in the beginning of this Parliament had for the security of the Subjects in their Persons Liberties and Estates passed many and several Acts of grace to the no small diminution of his Royal Prerogative more than all his Predecessors Kings of England from the Conquest downward had ever done and all this to remove from them all jealousies and fears After this in May 1641. he gives way at the great and pressing importunity of the House of Commons ●●●1 to the Condemnation and Execution of the Earle of Strafford a loyal Subject and a most able and accomplish'd counsellour as any Prince in Christendome ever had The King was very hardly moved to yield either to his attaindor or execution as not being satisfied in conscience of any guilt or crime in him deserving such punishment but yield at length he did though with much reluctancy to satisfie the importunity of the people and indeed at the request of the Earle himself who desired Jonah-like to be cast over-board thereby to appease the violent rage of a tempestuous people The truth is this Nobleman as also the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury afterwards Anno 1644. were meerly sacrificed to the malice and revenge of the Scots In August following the King goes into Scotland to compose differences there between himself and his Subjects of that Kingdom which done he returns again to London and is there received with exceeding joy and triumph of the people in or about the beginning of December The House of Commons to welcome his Majesty home instead of giving him thanks for the many gracious Acts he had lately passed they present him with a Remonstrance Dec. 15. laying open all the miscarriages and misfortunes of his whole Government from the beginning of his Raign even to that present and this they publish contrary to his express desire to the whole Kingdom whereby they gave occasion to the people to conceive jealousies and suspicions of a malignant party about the King still carrying on their own designs both against Religion and the Laws of the Land After the publishing of this Remonstrance fears and jealousies encrease among the people the vulgar rabble in and about London frequently flock down to Westminster with Petitions and clamours against the Bishops and Popish Lords and disaffected Members as they termed them in the House of Commons and no redress could be had again them though the House of Lords and the King himself had moved the House of Commons to declare against them The truth is they were favored and countenanced under hand by some Members of that House The King to avoid the danger of these tumults withdraws from White-hall to Windsor from thence afterwards to Newmarket and so by Cambridge into the Northern parts and thence to York The Parliament soon after his removal from Whitehall petition Him at Newmarket and elsewhere for the Militia to have it put into such hands as the two Houses shall think fit but he denyes them telling them that the Law hath setled it in Him that to divest Himself of the power of the Sword is to bereave Himself of power to protect his people and support the Laws This Petition was much insisted on by the Parliament under pretence of feares and jealousies but the King absolutely and peremptorily denyes it The King by several journeys comes year 1642 to York in the beginning of the year 1642 and there he settles His Court. Soon after his coming into those parts he was denyed enterance into Hull by Sir John Hotham when he offer'd to go into the Town but with twenty persons attending Him The King thereupon fearing lest the same armed force that kept Him out of Hull might surprize His Person at York he entertaines a guard of the Gentry of that County This by the house of Commons is Voted a levying of War against the Parliament though they themselves had long before three times as many of the Trainedbands of the City to guard the houses dayly Many Petitions Answers and Declarations passed between the King and Parliament during his Majesties being at York wherein it is evident to all understanding men that the King had the better cause and was more able to maintain it by the pen and by reasons and arguments than the Parliament was for the truth is his Declarations and Answers to their Messages Petitions and Propositions were unanswerable But words and writings not being sufficient to compose these differences they proceed from words to blows About July they Vote that the King is seduced by evill and Malignant Counsellers and thereupon they Vote an Army to be raised under the Command of Robert Earle of Essex the pretence is for King and Parliament against these Malignant Counsellers but they accuse or name none in particular The same year Aug. 24. the King sets up his Standard at

Commanders to issue out Armes and Ammunition for the defence of the Parliament and City against all that should invade them Massey Pointze Birch and other reformadoes that had formerly done great service for the Parliament when Essex was General are now imployed as chief Commanders for the City The Army on the contrary drawing together all their Forces and endeavouring to raise the Trained bands in the adjacent Counties prepare and intend to invade and subdue that Rebellious City The City thus prepared for defence were nevertheless for preventing the effusion of blood willing to have accorded with the Army upon any reasonable terms and to that purpose sent several messages to the Army but all would not do no terms of reconciliation or peace would be granted unless they would submit themselves and the Parliament wholly to the power of the Army which upon the point they did for in conclusion they agree and yield To desert both Houses of Parliament and the impeached Members To recall their Declaration lately published Relinquish their Militia deliver up all their Forts and line of Communication to the Army as also the Tower of London with all Armes and Ammunition therein to disband all their Forces and turn all their new-made Commanders and Reformadoes out of the line to demolish all their works and to suffer the Army to march without opposition through the City These imperious conditions of the Army were calmly submitted to by the tame-spirited Citizens And thereupon the Army brings in the fugitive Speakers and Members and seat them again in their authority Fairfax receives the solemn thanks of the House the common souldiers two months pay for their good service and valour and a day of Thanksgiving is appointed to be solemnly kept for this great deliverance and Fairfax made General of all Forces both in England and Wales and Constable of the Tower of London All this was done Aug. 6. 1647. Soon after the General Lieutenant General and the whole Army with their train of Artillery march in triumph through the City of London And from that day forward both City Parliament and whole Kingdom are subject to the Army Not long after the restitution of these fugitive Members all Votes Orders and Ordinances of Parliament made in their absence are declared null and void The eleven impeached Members of the House of Commons have leave granted them to go beyond Sea and they must think they are favourably dealt with Seven Lords that sate in the upper House in the absence of the fugitive Members viz. The Earls of Suffolk Lincoln and Midlesex the Lords Berkly Willoughby Hunsdon and Maynard are impeached of high Treason and committed to the black Rod for levying of War against the King Parliament and Kingdom The Lord Mayor Aldermen and divers Citizens are likewise impeached of the same crime and committed to the Tower divers members also of the Commons House are under accusation and examination as countenancers and abettors of the late tumult But all these impeachments and accusations in time vanished and came to nothing only the Army Faction was by this means strengthened and encouraged and the other party as much quell'd and discouraged so that thenceforward all Votes propounded were passed or not according to the temper and disposition of the Army The Parliament became wholly subservient to the Armies designs as will plainly appeare in the ensuing Story Meantime the King continues still under the power of the Army removes and passes from place to place as they remove their Quarters But now having made the Parliament wholly for their turn he is removed nearer London to Hampton Court there he had much freedom and abundance of people continually resorted to him At Hampton Court he receives Propositions from the Parliament Septem 7. the same in effect that were tendred to him at Newcastle in July the year before The King in answer desires that the Parliament would take into consideration the Proposals of the Army of August 1. 1647. as more moderate and more conducing to satisfie all interests in the Nation Things thus standing and the King remaining still at Hampton Court a Faction of Seditious people called Levellers sprung up in the City and Army some of the chiefest whereof were Lilburn Overton VVyldman and others people of a turbulent and heady temper These frame a writing called the Agreement of the people tending to the alteration of the whole frame of Government of the Nation They stile the House of Commons in their Petitions the supreme power of the Nation they bitterly declaim and raile against the House of Lords in several Pamphlets These at first receive some check from the House of Commons and one of them a souldier is by the Council of War condemned and shot to death at VVare but yet they increase more and more and grow more insolent every day being as is was probably thought countenanced underhand by some in the Parliament and by some great Officers in the Army to promote their own ambitious designs At length about Novemb 9. or 10. Cromwell sends word to the King by Colonel VVhaley who had the Guard of him that those kind of people were grown very numerous in the Army that he feared they had some malicious design against his Majesties person and he doubted it would not be in the power of the Officers of the Army to protect him and therefore advised him by timely withdrawing himself in private to provide for his own security A Letter of Advertisement also from an unknown person in London to the same purpose was sent and delivered to his Majesty intimating his danger and wishing his Majesty were at his or any Loyal Subjects House in London Whereupon the next day in the Evening Novemb. 11. his Majesty with a Servant or two only conveyed himself secretly from Hampton Court into the Isle of Wight In that Island commanded one Colonel Hamond as Governour there for the Parliament a kinsman he was of Dr. Hamonds that famous Divine and I think the Kings Chaplain insomuch as the King might expect some more then ordinary civility from him Hamond presently gives notice to the Parliament of his Majesties coming thither and upon order from the Parliament takes him into custody at Curesbrook Castle The King also upon his departure from Hampton Court had left upon the Table a Letter or Message to the two Houses of Parliament signifying the cause of his withdrawing himself and also his readiness to concurre with them in all things just and reasonable for the settling of a safe and well-grounded Peace And had further soon after his arrival in the Isle of Wight sent another Message or Declaration to them wherein he offers First Concerning Religion to establish the Presbyterian Government for three years and then afterwards to establish Church-Government in such a manner as shall be concluded upon by the Assembly of Divines with the addition of twenty Divines to be nominated by his Majesty Secondly For the Militia he

were highly guilty of the Kings Trial and death And all these together had a great influence upon the Army These generally were disaffected to the Protector The Army also Richard having never been a Souldier were very desirous to have a General of their own choice with power to place and displace what Army-Officers he thought fit Fleetwood the Protectors Brother in-law or Lambert aims at the place To effect their design they with the Commonwealths men in Parliament as Haselrig and Vane Scot and Weaver and others the like make a Faction in the Army against the Protector The Commanders of the Army that were of this Faction had frequent meetings at Fleetwoods Lodging at Wallingford House whereof Richard had notice and might have supprest them in time by some chief Officers that were of his part who offered their assistance thereunto but being loth to hazard the effusion of blood he let things rest hoping perhaps they would not have proceeded as afterwards they did Fleetwood soon after advises him to adjourn the Parliament year 1659 but he refusing they come to him and force him to send a Writ to dissolve it This was about the latter end of April 1659. The Parliament thus suddenly dissolved the Souldiers were at a loss what to do at last they resolve after a solemn Fast had among themselves as their manner was to call in that piece or tail of the long Parliament that Cromwell and themselves had broke up and cast out six years before April 20. 1653. to return again to the exercise of their trust as they termed it expressing their Repentance for that action and desiring to return again into the good old way Lenthal the Speaker and some others of that company being then in and about the City very gladly accept the motion they thought long to be again in authority They call together all their fellow-Members that they could get and had much ado to make fourty thought they took two of them out of the Gaol viz. the Lord Munson and Henry Martin who were Prisoners there upon execution Being thus got together upon Saturday afternoon May 7. the Speaker with the rest enter the House and set again as a Parliament publishing a Proclamation or Declaration to let the People understand how by the wonderful providence and mercy of God they were again restored to the exercise of their trust being as they call themselves Asserters of the Good old Cause c. The Munday following Mr. William Prin a Bencher of Lincolns Inn and many more Members of the Long Parliament that were secluded upon the Kings Tryal December 1648. met together at Westminster and went to the House-door demanding admission to sit with the rest but were den●ed entrance and kept out with armed guards Whereupon he writes a Book called his Narrative wherein he declraes at large their manner of demanding admission and in what manner they were forcibly kept out and very solidly pleads the Kings cause against their Commonwealth And another Book he writes and publishes at the same time intituled The good old Cause wherein he manifestly proves by twelve undeniable Arguments that that which they termed the good old Cause was far worse more destructive both to Church and State to Religion and the Common-wealth then the Gunpowder Treason And though he openly owned and avowed these Books setting his name to them yet they never returned the least answer to them nor questioned the Author But these Books thus seasonably published gave a deadly blow to their good old Cause though the operation of it was not so presently discerned The Parliament those few that were being thus got in again they presently depose the Protector and alter the Government from a single person to a Common-wealth They null all honouts conferred by the late Protector so that many are in an instant unknighted whom Oliver before had honoured with that dignity Richard himself but the other day Lord Protector of England Scotland and Ireland and his Highness at every word is now in the language of the Parliament but Richard Cromwel Esq for by that Title they wrote to him to quit his Lodgings and remove from White-hall and his Excellency Lord Henry Cromwell Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is now no more then Mr. Henry Cromwel All Olivers venerable House of Peers have now in an instant lost their Lordships and are the same that formerly they were so great a change is effected in an instant Only Fleetwood and Lambert are still termed Lords in the Parliaments first Declaration May 7. and there was cause for it for the Parliament were what they were by their means And now all mouths are open in an instant against the late Protector Oliver reproaching him as the worst of Tyrants and Usurpers tearing his Hearse or Statue in pieces defacing and pulling down his sumptuous Monument that was but a few weeks before at a most vast charge set up in Westminster The Parliament were more obliged to the Army then they were to the people for putting them again into Authority for the people had had more then enough of them for almost two seven years before Oliver never did so much good for the Nation nor had more thanks from the people then when he and his Army had turned these men out as before is said April 20. 1653. And therefore they thought it concerned them rather to gratifie the Army then to please the people To this end not long after their re-installment they impose a Tax of twelve months to be paid in a manner altogether That 35000 li. a month which was not to be paid by the Act that imposed it till Midsummer 1660. and that quarterly they command to be paid in presently between Lammas and Michaelmas 1659. intending as its probable as soon as that was paid in to impose another the like payment upon the people After this about July they pass an Act for setling the Militia and it was sent down into the several Counties to be presently put in execution but the Army as it was thought not relishing this design it was soon after laid aside This year about the beginning of August there was a rising in Cheshire Lancashire and the parts adjoyning under the command of Sir George Booth Sir Thomas Midleton and other Gentlemen in those parts they declare for a free and full Parliament to be elected by the People It was commonly reported the design was general laid all over all England and t●● 〈◊〉 was carried on ch●●●ly by the P●●●●●terian Party But Cheshire and the parts adjacent were the first that arose in other places attempts were made but they were suppressed Sir George Booth had taken Westchester both Town and Castle and was reported to be very numerous And therefore upon the first intelligence thereof Lambert is sent out against him with an Army of six or seven thousand men and a train of Artillery and forces from all quarters are appointed to draw to him so that all